1. It is necessary to go on boasting. Though it is not profitable, I will go on to visions and revelations from the Lord.
2. I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago (whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows) was caught up to the third heaven.
3. And I know that this man (whether in the body or apart from the body I do not know, God knows)
4. was caught up into paradise and heard things too sacred to be put into words, things that a person is not permitted to speak.
5. On behalf of such an individual I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except about my weaknesses.
6. For even if I wish to boast, I will not be a fool, for I would be telling the truth, but I refrain from this so that no one may regard me beyond what he sees in me or what he hears from me,